The focus of teacher leadership is on how teachers take on additional responsibilities beyond the classroom to impact instruction and student performance. These responsibilities are defined through standards. The Teacher Leader Model Standards provide seven domains clearly defining these responsibilities. See the module readings, presentations, and Learning Objects page for more information on the standards and the domains.
Use these questions to guide an original response.
Which of the seven domains do you believe is most beneficial in focusing the responsibilities of teacher leaders? Why?
Provide a large-scale example you or another teacher leader at your school took to support any of the seven leadership domains.
Locate a peer post describing a different domain than the one you chose. Explain to the colleague why the domain is not your primary area of focus.
Locate a second peer post describing the same domain you chose (or a domain you would select as the second-most important). Expand on their ideas of why the specific domain is crucial.